The seven-piece band from Tel Aviv, Israel, opened at the famed SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, and they’ll close March 29 at the Savannah Music Festival. While the band is used to pulling in large audiences throughout Europe and the Middle East, SXSW was a unique proving ground.

“It’s crazier than we ever expected it to be,” says band leader Idan Rabinovici. “It’s utter chaos. I knew that it was big and kind of a party week, but I didn’t realize how wild it gets.

“Just trying to find parking has been hard because we’re such a big band and have so much equipment,” he says. “We’re playing six shows total throughout the week, so we’ve all been really busy, but busy in a good way.”

The stop in Savannah should be calmer, but band members are just as excited about playing here as in Austin, Rabinovici says.

By far one of Israel’s biggest indie successes, Acollective bills its sound as “electronic-jazz, psychedelia and a Middle Eastern-bluesy twang” created from the members’ own classical training.

“The band is intended not to be genre specific,” Rabinovici says. “It’s a mixture of all kinds of things.

“We all come from Tel Aviv, but Israel is a pretty diverse place. Our drummer used to be involved in the local punk and metal scene. The other lead singer was in country blues.

“I played classical music for 20 years,” Ravinovici adds. “I don’t think any of those genres comes into play, but there are little touches and colors of it as we’re trying to make it our own.”

The American tour opens a new chapter for the band.

“I can’t overstate just how excited we are about coming to tour the U.S.,” Rabinovici says. “I can still remember us talking as teenagers about being on the road, and touring the US, and it’s a wonderful feeling to have your dreams become a reality. We’ve all been to the U.S. in some shape or form, but never as a band.”

Rabinovici’a brother, Roy, is one member of the band. Others are Roy Rieck, who co-writes the songs with Rabinovici, Daniel Shoham, Joseph E-Shine, Emanuel Slonim and Nadav Luzia. Each has a different musical background, but together they form a collective, hence the band’s name.

“We function as a collective, financially and logistically,” Rabinovici says. “We’re self-managed, and each person has a set of things he’s responsible for.”

The band members were close even before forming the band. “We knew each other from childhood, practically,” Rabinovici says. “All of us grew up together and went to the same schools.

“Tel Aviv is a city, but a relatively small city,” he says. “We grew up in the same circles, the same schools. We’ve all been musicians since we were children, so we went to art schools.”

Being on the road together for long periods of time has resulted in strong bonds. “Even though we were friends before, our friendship now is also musical,” Rabinovici says. “We talk about bands we love or hate, and there is no agreement on a single artist. There are long hours of bickering and fighting over musical tastes.”

Acollective’s success is due to “circumstance, chance and providence,” Ravinovici says.

“We’ve wanted to come to the U.S. for a while, so we’ve been piecing together things to make it happen,” he says. “We’ve heard so many good things about Savannah and cannot wait to come visit. Unfortunately, we don’t have as much time as we’d like, but Savannah is the show we’re most looking forward to.”

The band will play songs from its latest album, released last year, as well as material for its next project.

“Given the option, we’d spend every day of the year on tour,” Rabinovici says. “That is ultimately what we really want to do.

“People’s reaction has been unbelievable and very supportive of what we do. Even though we have an ambiguous band name and no specific genre, people really like us.”